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Bound home from France after an eight-month visit was best-seller Richard Wright (Black Boy, Native Son); but he was going back again in the spring. "America is not the New World," wrote the Negro novelist in a Parisian journal, "because the social elements in the States are among the oldest . . . whereas Europe has abandoned the ancient structure. . . . Thus, France and Europe should be considered the New World...
...After an eight-month season of fortnightly concerts, the new Royal will probably tour England and the Continent, eventually visit the U.S. "Sixty or 70 [U.S.] cities have asked me to bring an English orchestra over," says enthusiastic Sir Thomas...
Last week, after an eight-month test (30 planeloads), Cocky Myers reported back to the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association what he had found...
...breathless eight-month rise of Evita Duarte from artistic obscurity to one of Argentina's highest paid radio contracts is the talk of Buenos Aires. Evita is lovely to look at-tall, svelte, brunette, alabaster-skinned, 26. She is also the favorite of Colonel Juan Perón, Minister of War and strong-boy of Argentina...
...socialite-playboy groom smiled ecstatically and told reporters: "I assure you that it was love at first sight . . . love at first sight." Then amateur Sportsman James H. R. Cromwell and his bride, the former Doris Duke, boarded the Italian liner Conte di Savoia, sailed romantically away on an eight-month, round-the-world honeymoon. That...